THIS
WEEK IN HISTORY The dates that
relate to the Cherokee People are found and written by: "On This
Date In North American Indian History" By Phil Konstantin
(copyright 1996-2002)
October 4th
1838:
Elijah Hicks, and 748 CHEROKEES will be the second group of
CHEROKEES to leave the Tennessee Cherokee Agency area under
their own supervision. They are part of the forced removal
of the CHEROKEES to the Indian Territory. They will arrive
on January 4, 1839.
October 14th
1768:
Today at Hard Labor, South Carolina, British Superintendent
of Indian Affairs will meet with Cherokee chiefs. They will
make a treaty which will cede 100 square miles of Cherokee
lands. The treaty will be renegotiated in two years.
October 17th
1782:
Today, CHEROKEE Indians will sign the "Long Swamp" treaty
with General Andrew Pickens in Selacoa, Georgia. They will
cede land in Georgia as reparations for the fighting during
the Revolutionary War.
October 23rd
1823:
Today, according to CHEROKEE records, CREEK Chief William
McIntosh, representing United States Indian commissioners,
will attempt to bribe CHEROKEE leaders. For $12,000
McIntosh hopes that Chiefs John Ross and Charles Hicks, and
Council Clerk Alexander McCoy will try to convince the
CHEROKEES to cede lands to the United States. The CHEROKEE
leaders will refuse the offer with a show of indignation.
October 25th
1805: The
CHEROKEE sign a treaty today with Return Meigs on the Duck
River covering land north of the Tennessee River in
Kentucky and Middle Tennessee (7 stat. 93).
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